One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information and sometimes mote importantly - information about the relatives of the deceased's family and extended family. This family name information is often not found anywhere else.​​During November, 2018 I have been updating the links to online obituary and obituary index collections that are available to search for free. There are a total of 180 online database links that I have found for Canada. Of these, 53 have been added since the previous update.

So not only can we search old newspapers for these gems, we sometimes can get transcriptions and clippings and also get directed to the location of the obituaries from obituary indexes.

Here are alternative means to newspaper searching to find obituary information, listed by the link to each province's list of free links. Please be aware that if you find a desired obituary in an index, that the holder of the actual obituary (e.g., library or genealogical society) may charge a small fee to send you a copy of the obituary itself.

My wife and I have spent the past 20 years indexing the local Port Hope newspaper microfilms, with over 31,000 entries listed. If you would like to add the site to your index, we'd be pleased.

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Kenneth R Marks

12/3/2018 10:00:42 am

Could you send me the url Peter? please email tokenmarksology@gmail.com. I would be glad to add to my link list. Thanks!.

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Peter Bolton

12/3/2018 12:27:00 pm

http://www.alivingpast.ca.

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